“I’ve asked him ‘Please, pleats are gone. Wear the flat front.’ … He has a flattering body,” she told KMVQ-FM in San Francisco. “I threw them out and when he went to the combine, he found a Walmart. They were $8. $8!”

With the 49ers having won road games at Green Bay and Carolina in the first two playoff rounds, Harbaugh is playing with fire — his team won games with him in the cheap, pleated khakis, so why mess with a good thing?

His wife is conflicted, saying that she “will not take blame for his outfits,” but that she does not want to throw cold water on the red-hot 49ers.